Kindness Starts With One^®

It was summer, 2021, and I was behind my apartment, and my neighbor was fixing his car. I just went down a slope and I fell off, not only skinning both of my knees, and also popping a chain. My neighbor was running over to me and said, “Hey, are you okay?” I told him what happened, and he told...

I used to work at a pizza place in my hometown when I was 14-15 years old. This homeless man came in quite frequently with change people had given him. One day, he came in just to escape the cold from the brisk winter weather and he had looked like he had not eaten in quite sometime. I decided that...

Around 3 years ago, I was drunkenly leaving the pub with my boyfriend to wait for our taxi home when we saw a visibly distressed teenage (15/16 year old) girl on the other side of the road crying down the phone. As this was around midnight on a busy Saturday night, I crossed to make sure she was okay once...

My dad was the kindest person. He loved to craft and started making Victorian dolls as a hobby. Each one took hours and he painstakingly curled ringlets around scewers and hand wove raffia hats. One time a friend of our family was in the last weeks of her cancer treatment. We heard she had lost her eyesight through the treatment....

When I was in my late teens, I was visiting my grandpa's grave site. I did this a lot, for my grandpa always gave me comfort. One particular day, I was feeling exceptionally sad and missing him greatly. An elderly gentleman walked by. He asked me who I was there visiting. I told him and he said to me, "He...

One time during a period when I was a bit depressed my school was selling five dollar teddy bears for you to give to other people on Valentine’s Day. I never expected anyone to get me one. So you can imagine my shock when I was handed a teddy bear. All the note said as to who it was from...

Me and my family saw a lady at Mmontréal. She was homeless and was alone. It was like 11pm at night in 2020. So my dad stopped at the gaz station and got 2 water bottles, some chips and two parts of pizza. We stopped where she was, my dad and I got out of the car and gave her...

LAST WINTER MY NEIGHBOR HAD HER HIP REPLACED. SHE WAS NOT ABLE TO LEAVE HER HOUSE. SHE COULD NOT DO ALL THE THINGS THAT SHE USED TO DO OUTSIDE. I DECIDED TO SHOVEL HER STEPS ALL WINTER. I ALSO WENT TO GET HER MAIL. EVERY WEEK, I TOOK HER TRASH CAN AND RECYCLE BIN TO THE FRONT OF HER HOUSE....

On a winter sunny morning, I decided to made a surprise to my family. I dressed myself in silence. I went outside with my shovel. I soveled all my big skating rink alone. After that, I woke up my brothers. They were very excited to discover that the skating rink was ready for a hockey game! Louka